Week 5.5: Like a Lizard

1 week past the halfway mark, almost 2 weeks without booze. I’m feeling somewhat stronger. Strangely, I’m always sleepy after my exercise. That’s enough to crash out for half an hour max.

Anyone knows why? I’d love to hear to from you.

My friend asked me about my Lizard Crawl exercise. It’s essentially crawling around on the ground like a lizard. I first learnt this in my MMA classes and found that it was a great full body workout for a very short amount of time. For anyone who doesn’t know how to do it, here it is, courtesy of YouTube.

Bone Dry Days: 11 (since 12 Feb)

Bet Days: 9/60 (since 14 Feb)

Achievements

Front Day: Dropped 1 Reverse Lunge to compensate for increased poundage. Ran all the way through and gotten somewhat faster, although I’ve taken quite a number of rests (15 to 30 sec) in between my slope runs.

Back Days: Single arm rows are a killer. It took everything out of my forearms until I couldn’t do any pull ups. Still doing 4 sets within 12 minutes. It feels easier strangely. I need to up the tempo.

Starting to plateau in my workouts, so I’m adding single-limb workouts. I’ve also included an Extended Front Plank where I use a stretched out  version of the Plank. It works my lats and abs harder than the usual Plank. Side Planks remain as is.

Goals

• +1 to Standard & Inclined Push Ups (16 X; 14 X)
• +1 to Reverse Lunge set (6 X)
• Drop Average rest to 10 sec
• +3 to Inclined Inverted Rows (10 X)

Training Routines

Dates: 21-22 Feb

Front Day

Exercises (3 Sets)
Weight: 16kg/side

1. 10 X Squats
2. 15 X Standard Push Ups; 13 X Inclined Push Ups
3. 5 X Reverse Lunge with Shoulder Presses
4. 10 X Bicep Curls to Arnold Presses
5. 15 X Single Leg Calf Raises (+10 Double Leg Calf Raises)

Weight: 16kg

1. 10 X Lunge

Run

1. 2.5 km + Slope Running (4x 0.38 km)
   Timing: 36:37; Total: 4.02 km; Speed: 6.63 km/h; Ave rest: 20 sec
2. 2 min of Skipping Rope

Back Day

12 mins; 4 sets 

1. 6 X Lizard Crawls (4 X to and fro)
2. 10 X Straight-leg Deadlifts
3. 5 X Rear Lunge to High Knee (per leg)

Exercises (3 Sets)
Weight: 16kg/side

1. 10 X Single-leg Deadlifts
2. 10 X Shrugs
3. 10 X Back Rows

Unweighted (4 sets)

1. 7 X Inclined Inverted Rows;  5 X Single-arm Inverted Rows
2. 13 X Inclined Push ups 
3. 3 X Pull Ups

Nightly

3 sets

1. Planks: side (30 sec) & extended front (25 sec)
2. 5 X Ab wheel mod (use a smooth cloth on a smooth surface)
3. Single leg bridge (15 sec Ea)
4. Stretches